Thesaurus: cautery

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1. n. A burning or searing, as of morbid flesh, with a hot iron, or by application of a caustic that will burn, corrode, or destroy animal tissue.
2. n. The iron of other agent in cauterizing.
3. n. an instrument or substance used to destroy tissue for medical reasons (e.g., removal of a wart) by burning it with a hot iron or an electric current or a caustic or by freezing it
4. n. the act of coagulating blood and destroying tissue with a hot iron or caustic agent or by freezing
5. 1. (Med.) A burning or searing, as of morbid flesh, with a hot iron, or by application of a caustic that will burn, corrode, or destroy animal tissue. 2. The iron of other agent in cauterizing. Actual cautery, a substance or agent (as a hot iron) which cauterizes or sears by actual heat; or the burning so effected. -- Potential cautery, a substance which cauterizes by chemical action; as, lunar caustic; also, the cauterizing produced by such substance.
6. A burning or searing, as of morbid flesh, with a hot iron, orby application of a caustic that will burn, corrode, or destroyanimal tissue.
7. n:100 n. an instrument or substance used to destroy tissue for medical reasons (eg removal of a wart) by burning it with a hot iron or an electric current or a caustic or by freezing it n. the act of coagulating blood and destroying tissue with a hot iron or caustic agent or by freezing